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35 - Music, Drama, Dance and Performing Arts
Liverpool Hope University : B - Drama
The Institute for the Art and Practice of Dissent at Home - Performing the Family, practice-based research submission
'Performing the Family' is a practice-based research submission by the Institute for the Art and Practice of Dissent at Home and consists of a body of work that 'perform the family' (at home and outside) including family performances, publications and artist residencies.
Dr Gary Anderson (50%) and Dr Lena Simic (50%)
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The Institute for the Art and Practice of Dissent at Home – Performing the Family practice-based research
'Performing the Family' is a practice-based research submission by the Institute for the Art and Practice of Dissent at Home and consists of a body of work that 'perform the family' (at home and outside) including family performances, publications and artist residencies.
The 'contribution to knowledge' is the generation of a critically reflexive performance-making methodology specific to the heteronormative nuclear family unit that operates both within performance spaces (six 'Family Picnic Performances' and one video film 'Anti-Oedipus Home Movie') and within the family home (publications and artist residencies). Because of the complex nature of this claim the contribution to knowledge is best surveyed across a number of family performances, publications and artist residencies – a selection of which are included in this submission. The submission is further supported by a number of invited artist talks across key strategic sites in the UK on the subject of the familial and domesticity.
100 word statement on co-authorship and the substantial and distinctive contribution of each of the submitting authors
The conceptual framework for the practice as research programme is fundamentally collaborative, arrived at jointly through the methodology of critically reflexive performance making as a nuclear family unit both in public and at home. Within this research programme, Anderson and Simic each have substantial and distinctive contributions. These are evident in the six performances, where Anderson has developed a performance vocabulary designed to question and undermine the patriarchal role of the father whilst Simic works with and against the maternal role. All three written publications combine the Marxist (Anderson) and feminist (Simic) theoretical frameworks.
